Slater filed for divorce from Dr. Lilly Jay in July 2023 after his relationship with Ariana Grande was made public. Ethan Slater’s ex-wife, clinical psychologist Dr. Lilly Jay, has opened up about her divorce from the Wicked star. “No one gets married thinking they’ll get divorced, in the same way we don’t board a plane expecting to crash. But I really never thought I would get divorced. Especially not just after giving birth to my first child and especially not in the shadow of my husband’s new relationship with a celebrity,” she began the essay.
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The mother of one explained how her profession allots for a widely understood amount of privacy. These days, however, Dr. Jay said she “deeply misses the life of invisibility I created for myself” before it was revealed in July 2023 that her estranged husband was in a relationship with the Grammy-winning pop star.
“As a therapist, part of what I could offer my patients was the experience of being in relation with someone else without the complexities of a personal relationship. I was never meant to be fully known to them,” she wrote. “I loved my life working in a helping profession and being immersed in the details of other people’s stories rather than documenting my own narrative for public consumption.”.
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